A sycamore tree in Northumberland’s National Park has come fifth in a European Tree of the Year contest. Situated in a dip alongside the world famous Hadrian’s Wall, the Sycamore Gap won the English award last year and was competing in the European finale for the first time against 15 […]
Sunderland fan, Bradley Lowery, will be presented with a portrait drawn by a North East artist at a charity football event to raise funds for the youngster. The pencil portrait drawn by Barry Jones, from Bedlington Station, Northumberland, shows the five-year-old in his beloved Black Cats strip. Bradley has been receiving […]
The multi-award winning international photography and film project is coming to the North East in an upcoming exhibition. It will include photographs of local dancers in front of iconic North East landmarks. Film-maker and photographer Jevan Chowdhury has brought his Moving Cities project to the North East in collaboration with […]
A North East pop up choir is set to perform at the BBC Free Thinking Festival at the Sage in Gateshead. A group of 8 singers from around the region will come together to create two bespoke vocal ‘noise pieces’ as a soundscape to spoken word. They will be working […]
These social ladies meet every month to build friendships and to knit. They meet in the textiles department at the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens on the second Wednesday of every month. Established in 1978 for education, innovation and preservation: the Sunderland Knitting and Crochet Guild aspire to excel and […]
The Princess Royal visited Newcastle City Library today where she was presented with a History of Newcastle Book. By Bianca Brateanu
A new state-of-the-art music, dance and drama centre has been awarded £6m by Arts council England. Just days after Sunderland Council granted planning permission for the new venue to be built, Arts Council England has awarded the Sunderland Music, Arts and Culture Trust £6m to help fund building the venue. […]
The University of Sunderland is celebrating today after picking up a new national award which recognises teaching excellence by teams in higher education. The Higher Education Academy (HEA) unveiled Sunderland’s Northern Centre of Photography (NEPN) as the winner of the first ever team award – the Collaborative Award for Teaching […]
The national Being Human Festival takes place this month and aims to bring the humanities to the public, so we can come together and celebrate what it means to ‘be human.’ While we live in a world where diversity is more important than ever and arts & humanities funding is […]
The Empire Theatre has been brought back to life with the restored metallic statue being placed back on its podium. The statue called Terpsichore stood atop theatre since 1907. However in January 2015, the high winds caused the statue to topple over. It has since for the past year been […]